According to BTVC`s website, while honey is considered legal, bee pollen is not: The sweeteners, molasses, and evaporated cane juice mentioned above all contain a high percentage of sucrose and therefore need to be broken down similarly to the table sugar described in the quote above. Honey, unlike the other sweeteners I mentioned, consists mainly of glucose and fructose as a molecular structure and is therefore easy to absorb directly from your body, which is somewhat unusual compared to most other natural and refined sweeteners. For example, here`s the difference between standard table sugar and honey: As a concrete example, you might consider adding extra ripe bananas to add sweetness to a slightly sweet banana bread recipe, or apple slices to an apple crumble recipe. Here`s a list of some potential legal sweeteners for whole ingredients – cooking often brings out extra sweetness in many fruits: Manuka honey does not appear to have been weighted by Elaine Godshall during her lifetime. However, she wrote that honey is generally legal on SCD, which would likely apply to Manuka honey as well. Isoglucose is a new artificial sweetener that will be incorporated into more products and will likely be used more in the future. However, it should be avoided as much as possible due to the high sugar content. Alternatively, you may want to consider using SCD legal ingredients to naturally add sweetness to recipes like (just a few examples): In case it is also useful to also have a special list of sweeteners that you should avoid specifically on the SCD diet, here is a list of illegal SCD sweeteners based on the BTVC lists of illegal ingredients: All fresh or frozen meats without illegal SCD ingredients. Carefully check labels for additives in solutions. Favorite organic. Although listed as a possible alternative to honey as calorie-free sweeteners on Elaine Gotshall`s SCD, you should exercise caution with saccharin and aspartame. Do not use commercial products containing additives, preservatives, sugar and other illegal sickle cell foods.
However, keep in mind that if you have a sweetener as part of sickle cell disease, it should be smaller and consumed in moderation. In summary, it may or may not be legal, so the safest option is not to use it. “When in doubt, leave it out.” However, if you decide to use it, I urge you to keep track of it in your journal and monitor it carefully for side effects. Keep in mind that reactions can take several days to appear. Check out the legal/illegal list on the Breaking the Cycle website for full details on each vegetable. Honey plays an important role in the SCD diet as the only natural sweetener choice. As with anything sweet, honey should be consumed in moderation and be careful never to give honey to a child under one year old. Although it is a liquid, honey is extremely versatile in cooking and baking. It can sweeten everything from jam to cakes and add rich depth to salmon or pumpkin icings. Next time you use honey, remember all the work it took to reach yourself and all the good things it can do for you, plus a sweet treat! Want to try SCD recipes with honey? Try! Homemade spices and salad dressings without illegal SCD foods are legal. Recipes are available online and in specialized cookbooks Over the past few decades, new research has emerged that is relevant to these sweeteners in terms of health, but also to Crohn`s disease and colitis in particular. Most vinegars are legal, with the exception of balsamic vinegar (except homemade; some recipes exist online).
Wine and whiskey are legal, brandy and sherry are not. For more information on individual alcoholic beverages, please see the legal/illegal list on the Breaking the Cycle website. I have not found a definitive answer. Let`s start with the assumption that the “molasses” in question is strictly condensed cider. If there are other ingredients, they would probably disqualify it. I put molasses in quotation marks because it is not molasses in the traditional sense of a by-product of table sugar production. As you know, pure cider is allowed, but it must be diluted 50/50 with water. Cider molasses is highly condensed cider, which means that most of the water is removed. It makes me think that if it was legal, you should just deal with it. I often wondered, when I started the carb-specific diet, what sweeteners are actually allowed in the diet.
I decided to consolidate everything I could find on the subject into one resource. Thank you. I found that, but I don`t have enough chemistry knowledge to know if it`s the same thing. Anyway, I can`t find anything on either form that allows me to say anything other than not know if it`s legal on the SCD. Now that we`ve covered the sugars you can have on the SCD, it`s important to know that there are many legal alternative sweeteners you can use to naturally add flavor to your dishes. Here are some examples of healthy SCD sweeteners: Hi Paul, I feel like I`m missing a significant portion of the chemistry involved in the SCD diet. I take legal spicy cider and reduce it to a thick liquid, then add it to my banana recipe for a little more spice and sweetness. Do I “refine” it? Change the nature of fructose by heating it and somehow making it illegal? Thanks in advance! Susie Sucralose is known as Splenda, which is illegal on the SCD. This is because it contains many artificial ingredients that should be avoided in any form. There have been many questions about why honey is accepted at SCD.
The main reason honey is legal is because it`s a natural sugar, which means it doesn`t contain any additional ingredients or additives if you choose an option that contains as many natural ingredients as possible. This distinguishes honey from other sugars such as maple syrup or evaporated sugarcane juice. Canned tuna wrapped in water or its own juice is legal. Thank you very much for this informative article! Exactly what I was looking for, I just started the SCD diet and sweeteners are already catching me. Yes, you refine it in the sense that you reduce the volume of the cider but keep the sugar.